Automobile tire-rack.



E. DOWNING.

AUTOMOBILE TIRE RACK.

A'PPLLCATION FILED mu. 2. 1911.

Patented l uly 17, 1917.

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" i a an nnr EDWARD DOWNIN G, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR '10 HOOVER SPRING 00., OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

AU TOMOBILE TIRE-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July it, 1911 "3.

Application filed January 2, 1917. Serial No. 140,016.

To. all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD DoWNING, a citizen of the} United States of America, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvenients in Automobile Tire-Racks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in automobile tire-racks and particularly to improvements in the tire-racks described and shown in United States Patent No. 1,150,696 granted Llewelyn Arthur Nares August 17, 1915, and United States Patent No. 1,197 ,272 granted me September 5,1916; andan object of this invention is to simplify and to cheapen the construction of thetireracks disclosed in the above-named patents and to make them more efiicient in operation.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of this invention and the best mode now known to me of applying that principle,

,Figure 1 is a front elevation of the tirerack (or tire-carrier, as it is sometimes called); Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3ois a side elevation of the tire-carrier, looking in the direction of the arrow A of Fig. 1.

The base-ring a (as in the ease of my patent hereinbefore referred to) is formed with an outwardly-projecting lip or flange Y), to which there is fastened a pair. of armhangers c. Diametrically opposite the latter, there is fastened, to the inside of the ring a, a stationary tire-supporting arm d. By means of a pivot-pin or hinge-pin 0, there is hingedly connected to the pair of armhangers 0, the inner end of a swinging-arm e. As is clearly disclosed in Fig. 2, the hinge-pin 0 lies outside of the basering a; and, when the arm 6 is swung into working or looking position, it is arrested and its outer travel is limited by the ring a. To swing the arm e on its pivot-pin 0', there is provided a pair'of toggle-links f, f, of which the link f is hingedly connected, at its outer end, to the swinging arm 6 by a pin 9 that lies within the outer end thereof, which end is formed with an outwardly-turned lip e. Theother link f is connected by a hinge-pin flange 5 and lips d, e, serve as stops or rests for the tires IV. The arm 6 is provided with facing-pieces c of canvas-like material. The toggle-link 7 is bifurcated at its inner end and, between branches f" of this forked end, there is held, by a lock 21, the inner end f of the toggledink 7. When the lock 2' is removed and the toggle-links f, f, are swung inwardly, their inner endsf turn on the pivot-pin j. The stationary tiresupporting arm 0? is stifiened or braced by means of the inclined braces in. The tirerack may be mounted by fastening the base ring a to the bracket m carried by the vehicle-body n.

By hinging the outer end of the togglelink 7 to the stationary tire-supporting arm 01, the construction of the tire-rack is simplified and cheapened, as compared with the construction described in my patent hereinbefore referred to.

I claim:

1. An automobile tire-rack including a base-ring; a stationary tire-supporting arm carried thereby; a swinging tire-engaging arm pivotally fastened to said basering; and a pair oftoggle-links the outer end of one of which is pivotally connected to said base-ring and the outer end of the other of which is pivotally fastened to said swinging arm.

2. An automobile tire-rack including a base-ring; a stationary tire-supporting arm carried thereby; a swinging tire-engaging arm pivotally fastened to said base-ring; and a pair of toggle-links the outer end of one of which is pivotally fastened to said stationary arm and the outer end of the other of which is pivotally fastened to said swinging arm.

3. An automobile tire-rack including a base-ring; a stationarytire-supporting arm carried thereby; a swinging tire-engaging arm pivotally fastened to said base ring; and a pair of toggle-links the outer end of Q messes one oflwhioh is pivotally connected to said 18th day of December, A. D. 1916, in the @se-ging and the lfutfer engdof tllmle other presence of the two undersigned witnesses. o w ic is ivote y asten to t e inner face of said swinging arm Within the outer EDWARD DOWNING' end thereof.

Signed at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, this Witnesses B. WILSON, GARETH DOWNING.

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